Birds Lyrics - Over The Rhine

Fall on me 

Fall on me 

Birds of a feather in a featherless cap 

Poor lovers breed songs in a two-room flat 

Moist hands fold to pray for a painless truth 

We dance on the tracks of a train called 

Youth 

Truth's on the table like a toxic spill 

And we wrestle in the sheets with our own freewill 

If we never shake hands with a phantom called fame 

I'll still have your picture in a picture 

Frame 

If you should fall 

Fall on me 

Forty-acre farm we can call our own 

With a chocolate lab and no telephone 

The full moon's leering in a lover's swoon 

And the apple tree's swaying to a windy 

Tune 

(save me I'm falling for you) 

But we won't get to heaven if we just sit still 

If we don't cry murder maybe no one will 

We're riding tandem down Sycamore hill 

If we hit the brakes we're gonna take a big spill 

If you should fall 

Fall on me 

And if my hand were taken hold of 

I'd slip away with you love 

Slip away with you love